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**heyya** · July 25, 2024, 9:28am

I’m having this problem in ST4 v4169. It only happens when I type “default”.

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Is there a way to fix this?

**deathaxe** · July 25, 2024, 9:40am

Appears it is recognized as default keyword of a switch-case statement by indentation rules and thus automatically unindented.

github.com

sublimehq/Packages/blob/20248844535d22efb8ed7f2582c56a55f444eb22/JavaScript/Indentation Rules.tmPreferences#L18


		<key>decreaseIndentPattern</key>
		<string><![CDATA[(?x)
			# line beginning with whitespace or block comments
			^ (.*\*/)? \s*
			(?:
			# dedent closing braces
			  \}
			# detent `case ... :`
			| case\b
			# detent `default:`
			| default\b
			)
		]]></string>


		<key>increaseIndentPattern</key>
		<string><![CDATA[(?x)
			# line beginning with whitespace or block comments
			^ (.*\*/)? \s*
			(?:
			# indent after opening braces (may be followed by whitespace or comments)
			# but exclude lines such as `extern "C" {`

Maybe it could be fixed by moving case and default to a dedicated ruleset which only applies on meta.switch meta.block.

Interesting, that default is not a global keyword.

**heyya** · July 25, 2024, 9:51am

I thought it’s just a simple remove-this-and-voila solution. Guess I just have to hope for an update

**heyya** · July 25, 2024, 2:40pm

Is there a way to do that in the settings?

**deathaxe** · July 25, 2024, 3:23pm

Not via settings, but you could override the file by extracting it and placing it to Packages/JavaScript/ folder. OverrideAudit package may assist you with that.

**heyya** · July 26, 2024, 3:35am

@deathaxe I installed it. What should I do next? I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with this so I’m running in blind.

**deathaxe** · July 26, 2024, 9:34am

**heyya** · July 26, 2024, 9:53am

Thank you!

**sheaf** · May 2, 2025, 9:12pm

@deathaxe I am having this same issue in C (with case and default).

**deathaxe** · May 3, 2025, 8:17am

Not the same issue: Indentation rules in C/C++ are designed to keep case / default on same indentation level as switch, because …

default rules support only one style of indentations
ST’s indentation engine is not able to handle dedenting closing } of a switch (foo) { ... } block by 2 indentation levels, which would be required to indent case and `default``.

see also: https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/issues/3960

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